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Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/18/2025)

THE PARIS NEWS, Nov. 6, 1972: "Roy Beard, a former resident of Lamar County, who lived at 5326 E. Third in Tulsa, Okla., died Sunday at St. Francis Hospital there.  He was a retired railroad employee.  Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in Moore's East Lawn Chapel in Tulsa with graveside services conducted by Gene Roden's Sons Funeral Home at Evergreen Cemetery in Paris at 4 p.m. Wednesday.  Born Dec. 8, 1903, in Lufkin, he was a son of Joe Beard Sr. and the former Miss Thorne Alice Hanks.  He married Miss Maude Burks, who survives, on Oct. 16, 1937.  He was a member of the Boston Avenue Methodist Church in Tulsa, and its Married Folks Sunday School Class.  He was a charter member of Tulsa Scottish Rite and member of the Eastgate Masonic Lodge, the Transportation Club, and was a past president of Delta Mu Alpha Transportation Fraternity, Oil Capitol Chapter No. 76.  Other than his wife, survivors include a son, K. Lamar Beard of Tulsa; two brothers, Joe Beard of Shreveport, La., and Perry Beard of Lafayette, La.; and three grandchildren."

On the same stone with Maude Burks Beard.